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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

yearly for ever fo●ty two pounds for a Lecture in St. Michael Bassings-Hall yearly ten pounds to the poor of Newgate twenty pounds to the two Compters to Ludgate and Bethlehem to each of them ten pounds to the four prisons in Southwark twenty pounds thirteen shillings four pence to the poor of Bassingshall ten pounds to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge to buy lands to maintain two Follows and two Scholars six hundred pounds to the building of the Colledge fifty pounds to be lent unto poor Merchants ●ive hundred pounds to the Hospitals of St. Bartholomew and St. Thomas each of ●hem ●i●ty pounds to the Poor of Bridewel twenty pounds to poor Maids marriages one hundred pounds to poor Strangers of the Dutch and French Churches fifty pounds towards the building of the Pesthouse two hundrad pounds The sum of these gifts in money amounteth to more than seventeen hundred pounds and the yearly Annuities to seventy two pounds 11 Sir Iohn Gresham Mercer and Mayor of London Anno 1548. in the Second year of King Edward the sixth gave ten pounds to the poor to every ward in London which are twenty four within the City And to one hundred and twenty poor men and women to every one of them three yards of Cloth for a Gown of eight or nine shillings a yard to Maids marriages and the Hospitals in London above two hundred pounds He also founded a Free School at Holt a Market Town in Norfolk 12. Mr. Thomas Ridge Grocer gave to charitable uses one thousand one hundred sixty three pounds six shillings and eight pence viz. To the company of Grocers to be lent to two young men free of the company an hundred pound to his men and maid servants sixty three pounds six shillings eight pence unto the Hospitals about London one hundred pounds unto Preachers four hundred pounds to poor Tradesmen in and about London three hundred pounds for a Lecture in Grace-Church one hundred pounds and in Gowns for poor men one hundred pounds 13. Mr. Robert Offley Haberdasher gave six hundr●d pounds to the Mayor and Commonalty of Chester to be lent to young Tradesmen and for the relief of poor and Prisons and other such charitable uses two hundred pounds he gave to the company of the Haberdashers to be lent to freemen gratis two hundred pounds more to pay ten pound yearly to the poor of the company two hundred pounds more to give ten pounds per annum to two Scholars in each University one to Bethlehem one hundred pounds to other Hospitals Prisons and poor one hundred and sixty pounds more in toto one thousand four hundred and sixty pounds 14. The Lady Mary Ramsey who in the life time of Sir Thomas Ramsey joyning with him and after his death assured in Land two hundred forty three pounds per annum to Christs Hospital in London to these uses following to the Schoolmaster of Hawstead annually twenty pounds to the Master and Usher in Christs Church by the year twenty pounds to ten poor Widows besides apparel and houses yearly twenty pounds to two poor a man and a woman during life to each ●ifty three shillings four pence to two fellows in Peter-house in Cambridge and four Scholars yearly forty pouuds to St. Bartholomews Hospital ten pounds to Newgate Ludgate Compters ten pounds to Christs Hospital after the expiration of certain Leases there will come per annum one hundred and twenty pound to St. Peters the poor in London St. Andrews Vnder-shaft St. Mary Woolnoth ten pounds to six Scholars in Cambrid●e twenty pounds to six Scholars in Oxford twenty pounds to ten maimed Soldiers twenty pounds for two Sermons ●orty shillings to the poor of Christs Church Parish ●i●ty shillings to the poor of the company of Drapers yearly ten pounds ten poor womens Gowns ten poor Soldiers Coats Shooes and Caps All these gifts aforesaid are to continue yearly 15. Mr. George Blundel Clothier of London by his last Will and Testament Anno 1599. bequeathed as followeth To Christs Hospital five hundred pounds to St. Bartholomews two hundred and fifty pounds to St. Thomas Hospital two hundred and fifty pounds to Bridewel yearly eight pounds towards Tiverton Church fifty pounds to mend the high ways there one hundred pounds to the twelve chief Companies in London to each one hundred and fifty pounds towards the releiving of poor prisoners and other charitable uses in toto one thousand eight hundred pounds For poor Maids marriages in Tiverton four hundred pounds to the City of Exeter to be lent unto poor Artificers nine hundred pounds towards the building of the free Grammar School in Tiverton two thousand four hundred pounds laid out since by his Executors Sir William Craven and others one thousand pounds to the Schoolmaster yearly fifty pounds to the Usher thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence to the Clark ●orty shillings for reparations eight pounds to place four boys Apprentices in Husbandry yearly twenty pounds to maintain six Scholars three in Cambridge and three in Oxford the sum of two thousand pounds The sum of all counting the yearly pensions at a valuable rate together with the legacies of money maketh twelve thousand pounds or thereabouts 16. Mr. Rogers of the company of Leather-sellers gave by his Will as followeth to the Prisons about London twelve pounds to the poor of two towns in the West Country thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence to the poor of the town of Pool where he was born ten pounds to build Alms-houses there three hundred thirty three pounds to relieve poor Prisoners being neither Papists nor Atheists that may be set free ●or twenty nobles a man one hundred and fifty pounds to poor Preachers ten pounds a man one hundred pounds to poor decayed Artificers that have Wife and Children one hundred pounds to the Company of Merchant Adventurers to relieve poor decayed people and for young Freemen four hundred pounds to Christs Hospital to purchase Land for the relief of that house five hundred pounds to erect Alms-houses about London and to maintain twelve poor People threescore pounds to the Parish where he dwelt ten pounds and for two dozen of Bread every Lords day to be distributed one hundred pounds to Christs-Church Parish fifteen pounds to the Poor in divers Parishes without Newgate Cripplegate Bishopsgate and St. Georges in Southwark twenty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence to each alike To St. Georges Parish in Southwark St. Sepulchres St. Olav●s St. Gile● St. Leonards to each thirty pounds one hundred and fifty pounds to St. Botolphs without Aldgate and Bishopsgate to each twenty pounds forty pounds Given to maintain two Scholars in Oxford two in Cambridge Students in Divinity to the Company of Leather-sellers which is carefully by them employed and augmented four hundred pounds The whole Sum amounteth to two thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds six shillings eight pence 17. Mr. George Palyn by his last Will and Testament gave unto

the Gentlewoman perceiving the Prince began to be warm in his wine in hopes of enjoying her promise she desired liberty to withdraw into an adjoyning Gallery to take the Air but as soon as she was come into it she cast her self headlong down in the presence of the Prince and all her dead Husbands Relations 2. Cedrenus observeth in his History that Constantine the Ninth exercising tyranny as well in matters of Love as within his Empire caused the Roman Argyropulus to be sought out and commanded him to repudiate his Wife whom he had lawfully married to take his daughter on condition that he would make him Caesar and associate him with himself in his dignity But if he condescended not to his will he threatned to pull out his eyes and to make him all the days of his life miserable The Lady who was present seeing her Husband involv'd in all the perplexities that might be and ignorant what answer to give unto the Emperour Ah Sir said she I see you are much hindred in a brave way if it only rest in your Wife that you be not great and happy I freely deprive my self of all yea of your company which is more precious to me than all the Empires of the world rather than prejudice your fortune For know I love you better than my self And saying this she cut o●f her hair and voluntarily entred into a Monastery which the other was willing enough to suffer preferring Ambition before Love a matter very ordinary amongst great ones 3. The Emperour Conrad the Third besieged Guelphus Duke of Bavaria in the City of Wensberg in Germany the Women perceiving that the Town could not possibly hold out long petitioned the Emperour that they might depart only with so much as each of them could carry on their Backs which the Emperour condescended to expecting they would have loaden themselves with Silver and Gold c. But they came all forth with every one her Husband on her back whereat the Emperour was so mov'd that he wept received the Duke into his favour gave all the men their lives and extol'd the women with deserved praises Bodinus says that Laurentius Medices was restored to his health by the only reading of this Story when he had long in vain expected it from the endeavours of his Physicians 4. Hota was the Wife of Rahi Benxamut a valiant Captain and of great reputation amongst the Alarbes she had been bravely rescued out of the hands of the Portugals who were carrying her away Prisoner by the exceeding courage and valour of Benxamut her Husband She shewed her thankfulness to him by the ready performances of all the o●●ices of love and duty Some time after Benxamut was slain in a con●lict and Hota perform'd her Husbands Funeral Obsequies with infinite lamentations laid his Body in a stately Tomb and then for Nine days together she would neither eat nor drink whereof she died and was buried as she had ordain'd in her last Will by the side of her beloved Husband Of her I may say as Sir Henry Wotton wrote upon Sir Albert Mortons Lady He first deceas'd She for a few days try'd To live without him lik'd it not and dy'd 5. Arria the Wife of Cecinna Paetus understanding that her Husband was condemn'd to dye and that he was permitted to chuse what manner of death lik'd him best she went to him and having exhorted him to depart this life couragiously and bidding him farewel gave her self a stab into the Breast with a Knife she had hid for that purpose under her Cloaths Then drawing the Knife out of the wound and reaching it to Paetus she said Vulnus quod feci Paete non dolet sed quod tu facies The wound I have made P●etus smarts not but that only which thou art about to give thy self Whereupon Martial hath an Epigram to this purpose When Arria to her Husband gave the Knife Which made the wound whereby she lost her Life This wound dear Paetus grieves me not quoth she But that which thou must give thy self grieves me 6. King Edward the First while Prince warr'd in the Holy Land where he rescued the great City of Acon from being surrendred to the Souldan after which one Anzazim a desperate Sarazen who had often been employed to him from the General● being one time upon pretence of some secret message admitted alone into his Chamber he with an empoyson'd Knife gave him three wounds in the Body two in the Arm and one near the Arm-Pit which were thought to be mortal and had perhaps been so if out of unspeakable love the Lady Elianor his Wife had not suck'd out the poyson of his wounds with her mouth and thereby effected a cure which otherwise had been incurable Thus it is no wonder that Love should do wonders seeing it is it self a wonder 7. Sulpitia was the Wife of Lentulus a person proscrib'd by the Trium-Virate in Rome he being fled into Sicily she was narrowly watch'd by Iulia her Mother lest she should follow her Husband thither but she disguising her self in the habit of a Servant taking with her two maids and as many men by a secret flight she got thither not refusing to be proscrib'd her self to approve her fidelity and Love to her Husband 8. Artemisia the Queen of Caria bare so true a love to her Husband Ma●solus that when he was dead she prepared his Funeral in a sumptuous manner she sent for the chiefest and most eloquent Orators out of all Greece to speak Orations in his Praise upon the chief day of the solemnity When the Body was burnt she had the Ashes carefully preserv'd and by degrees in her drink she took down those last remainders of her Husband into her own body and as a further testimony of her Love to his Memory she built him a Sepulchre with such magnificence that it was numbred amongst the seven wonders of the World 9. Learchus by poyson cut off Archelaus King of the Cyrenians and his friend and seiz'd upon his Kingdom in hopes of enjoying his Queen Eryxona She pretending not to be displeas'd with the proposals invited Learchus to come alone in the night and confer with her about it who in the strength of his affection and fearing nothing of treachery went unaccompanied to her Palace where he was slain by two whom Eryxona had there hid for that purpose and his body she caused to be thrown out at the Window 10. Camma the Wife of Sinatus the Priestess of Diana was a person of most rare beauty and no less virtue Erasinorix to enjoy her had treacherously slain her Husband he had often attempted in vain to perswade her to his embraces by fair speeches and gifts and she fearing he would add force to these feigned her self to be overcome with his importunity To the Temple they went and standing

very time he was carried out in a Cart towards the gate all covered with dung The man overcome with these entreaties of his friend ●mmediately runs out to the gate where he finds the Cart he had seen in his dream he sei●es and searches it finds there the body of his friend and drags the Inn-keeper to his deserved punishment 23. Upon a Sally made upon some of the Forces of Alexander the Great out of Harmata a City of the Brachmans many of his Souldiers were wounded with empoysoned Darts and as well those that were lightly as those that were deeper wounded daily perished Amongst the wounded was Ptolomy a great Captain and exceeding dear to Alexander when therefore in the night he had been solicitous about his welfare as one whom he tenderly loved he seemed in his sleep to see a Dragon holding a certain herb in his mouth and withal informing him both of the virtue it had and of the place where it grew He rises finds the herb bruises it and applies it to Ptolomy's Wound and by this means that great Ancestor of the Royal Family in Egypt was speedily restored 24. A rich Vessel of Gold being stolen out of the Temple of Hercules Sophocles by a Genius was shewed the resemblance and name of the Thief in his sleep which for the first and second time he neglected but being troubled a third night he went to the Areopagi to whom he made relation of what had passed They upon no other evidence summoned the party before them who after strict examination confessed the fact and made restitution of the Vessel For which discovery the Temple was ever after called Templum Herculis Indicis The Temple of Hercules the Discoverer 25. When Marcus Cicero was forced into Exile by an opposite Faction while he abode at a Village in the fields of Atinas in his sleep he thought that while he wandred through desert places and unknown Countries he met with C. Marius in all his Consular Ornaments and that he asked him wherefore his countenance was so sad and whither he intended that uncertain journey of his And when he had told him of his misfortune he took him by the right hand and gave him to the next Lictor with command to lead him into his Monument in as much as there was reserved for him a more happy Fortune and change of his condition Nor did it otherwise come to pass For in the Temple of Iupiter erected by Marius there it was that the Senate passed the Decree for the return of Cicero from his Exile 26. In the year of our Redemption 1553. Nicholas Wotton Dean of Canterbury being then Embassador in France dreamed that his Nephew Thomas Wotton was inclined to be a party in such a project as if he were not suddenly prevented would turn to the loss of his life and ruine of his family The night following he dreamed the same again and knowing that it had no dependence upon his waking thoughts much less on the desires of his heart he did then more seriously consider it and resolved to use so prudent a remedy by way of prevention as might introduce no great inconvenience to either party And to this end he wrote to the Queen it was Queen Mary and besought her that she would cause his Nephew Thomas Wotton to be sent for out of Kent and that the Lords of her Council might interrogate him in some such feigned questions as might give a colour for his Commitment into a favourable Prison declaring that he would acquaint Her Majesty with the true reason of his request when he should next become so happy as to see and speak with Her Majesty It was done as the Dean desired and Mr. Wotton sent to Prison At this time a Marriage was concluded betwixt our Queen Mary and Philip King of Spain which divers persons did not only declare against but raised Forces to oppose of this number Sir Thomas Wyat of Bexley Abbey in Kent betwixt whose Family and that of the Wottons there had been an ancient and entire friendship was the principal Actor who having perswaded many of the Nobility and Gentry especially of Kent to side with him and being defeated and taken Prisoner was arraigned condemned and lost his life so did the Duke of Suffolk and divers others especially many of the Gentry of Kent who were then in several places executed as Wyats assistants And of this number in all probability had Mr. Wotton been if he had not been confined For though he was not ignorant that another mans treason is made mine by concealing it yet he durst confess to his Uncle when he returned into England and came to visit him in Prison that he had more than an intimation of Wyats intentions and thought he had not continued actually innocent if his Uncle had not so happily dreamed him into a Prison 27. This forementioned Thomas Wotton also a little before his death dreamed that the University Treasury was rob'd by Townsmen and poor Scholars and that the number was five and being that day to write to his Son Henry at Oxford he thought it was worth so much pains as by a Postcript in his Letter to make a slight inquiry of it The Letter which was writ out of Kent came to his Sons hands the very morning after the night in which the robbery was committed and when the City and University were both in a perplexed inquest after the Thieves then did Sir Henry Wotton shew his Fathers Letter and by it such light was given of this work of darkness that the five guilty persons were presently discovered and apprehended without putting the University to so much trouble as the casting of a figure 28. Aristotle writeth of one Eudemus his familiar Friend who travelling to Macedonia came to the noble City of Phaecas in Thessaly then groaning under the immanity of the barbarous Tyrant Alexander In which place falling sick and being forsaken of all the Physicians as one desperate of recovery he thought he saw a young man in his dream who told him that in a short space he should be restored to his health that within a few days the Tyrant should be removed by death and that at the end of five years he himself should return home into his Country The two first happened accordingly but in the fifth year when encouraged by his dream he had hope to return from Sicily into Cyprus he was engaged by the way in a Battel fought against the Syracusans and there slain It seems the soul parting from the body is said to return into its own Country 29. Actia the Mother of Augustus the day before she was delivered of him dreamed that her bowels were carried up as high as Heaven it self and that there they were spread out in such manner that they covered the whole Earth a notable presignification of the mighty Empire and Grandeur which her Son afterwards attained unto 30. When Themistocles lived

and thence to Barkely Many cruelties they exercised upon this poor Prince they permitted him not to ride but by night neither to see any man nor to be seen by any man when he rode they forced him to be bare-headed when he desired to sleep they would not suffer him neither when he was hungry would they give him such meat as he desired but such only as he loathed every word that he spake was contraried by them and they gave out that he was mad All this was done that either by cold watching unwholesom food melancholy or some other infirmity he might langu●sh and dye but in vain was their expectation yea even the poysons they gave him were dispatched away by the benefit of Nature In their journey to Barkely from Bristol the wicked Gurney making a Crown of Hay put it on his head and the Souldiers that were present scoffed and mocked him beyond measure saying Tprut avaunt Sir King making a kind of noise with their mouths as if they farted Fearing to be known as they travelled they devised to disfigure him by shaving of his head and beard wherefore by a little water that ran into a ditch they commanded him to light from his Horse to be shaven to whom being set on a Mole-hill a Barber came with a Bason of cold water taken out of a ditch saying to the King that water should serve for that time To whom Edward answered That in spite of them he would have warm water for his beard and thereupon began to weep and shed tears plentifully At length they came to Barkely Castle where Edward was shut up close as an Anchorite in a room where dead carcasses were laid on purpose in the Cellar under it that the stench might suffocate him but this being perceived not sufficient one night being the 22. of Septemb. they came rushing in upon him suddenly as he lay in his bed and with great and heavy Feather-beds being in weight as much as fifteen strong men could bear they oppressed and strangled him Also they thrust a Plummers Sodring-Iron being made red-hot into his bowels through a certain Instrument like to the end of a Trumpet or Clystering Pipe put in at the Fundament burning thereby his inward parts lest any outward wound should be found His crys were heard within and without the Castle and known to be the crys of one that suffered violent death And this was the sorrowful and tragick end of Edward of Carnarvan 25. Dionysius the younger had his Kingdom in good constitution and sufficiently fortified as thus He had no less than 400 Ships of five and six Oars in a seat he had one hundred thousand Foot and nine thousand Horse his City of Syracuse had strong Gates and was compassed with high Walls he had in readiness all manner of warlike provisions to furnish out 500 more Ships he had Granaries wherein were laid up 100 Myriads of that measure which contains six bushels of bread-corn he had a Magazine repleat with all sorts of Arms offensive and defensive he was also well fortified with Confederates and Allies so that he himself thought that the Government was fastned to him with chains of Adamant But being invaded by Dion in his absence his people revolted and behold what a fatal revolution fell out in his Family himself had before slain his Brother and in this Insurrection against him his Sons were cruelly put to death his Daughters were first ravished then stript naked and in that manner slain and in short none of his Progeny obtained so much as a decent Burial for some were burnt others cut in pieces and some cast into the Sea and he himself dyed old in extreme poverty Theopompus saith that by the immoderate use of Wine he was become purblind that his manner was to sit in Barbers Shops and as a Jester to move men unto laughter living in the midst of Greece in a mean and low fashion he wore out the miserable remainders of a wretched life 26. King Edward the Third that glorious Conqueror after he had reigned fifty years and four months being in the fifty sixth year of his Age An. Dom. 1377. fell into his last sickness at his Mannor of Richmond where when he was observed to be drawing on towards his end his Concubine Alice Peirce came to his bed-side and took the Rings from his fingers which for the Royalty of his Majesty he was wonted to wear and having left him gasping for breath fled away The Knights and Esquires and Officers of his Court each of them fell to rifle and make prey of all they could meet with and also hasted away leaving the King alone in this sorrowful state and condition Only it fortuned that a Priest lamenting the Kings misery that amongst all his Counsellors and Servants there was none to assist him in his last moments entred his Chamber exhorting the King to lift up his eyes and heart unto God to repent him of his sins and to implore the mercy of Heaven and its forgiveness The King had before quite lost his speech but at these words taking strength uttered his mind though imperfectly in those matters and made signs of contrition wherein his voice and speech failed him and scarce pronouncing this word Iesu he yielded up the ghost 27. Gilimer was King of the Vandals in Africk long had he lived happy increasing his riches and Dominions by his Victories when his felicity began to alter Belisarius sent by the Emperour Iustinian against him overthrew him he sled out of the Battel unto Pappus a high Mountain in Numidia whither he was pursued and besieged he had endured the Siege a while when he sent word that he would yield up himself only desired there might be sent him a piece of Bread a Sponge and a Harp the Bread to relieve his hunger the Sponge to dry his eyes and the Harp to ease his afflicted mind they were sent him and he yielded Being brought into the presence of Belisarius he did nothing but laugh being led in Triumph to Constantinople and presented to Iustinianus and Theodora his Empress he cryed out Vanity of vanities all his vanity He afterwards dyed private in a corner of Gaul 28. Croesus that rich King of Lydia shewed Solon all his Riches and Treasures And what thinkest thou said he is there any man thou knowest more happy than my self There is said he and named one Tellus a man of mean fortune but content with it and then he named two others who having lived well were now dead Croesus laughs and said he What state take you me to be in I cannot tell said Solon nor can we reasonably account that man happy who is tossed in the waves of this life till he is arrived at the Haven seeing a tempest may come that may overturn all Croesus made little of this at that time but being overcome by Cyrus bound and laid upon a Pile to be burnt alive Croesus cryed out O

his foot upon the Coach-wheel reached him over the shoulders of one of his greatest Lords and stabbed him to the very heart and with a monstrous undauntedness of resolution making good his first stab with a second dispatched him suddenly from off the earth as if a Mouse had strangled an Elephant Sic parvis pereunt ingentia rebus And thus the smallest things Can stop the breath of Kings 4. While the Emperour Charles the Fifth after the resignation of his Estates staid at Vlushing for wind to carry him to his last journey into Spain he conferred on a time with Seldius his Brother Ferdinand's Ambassadour till the deep of the night and when Seldius should depart the Emperour calling for some of his Servants and no body answering him for those that attended upon him were some gone to their Lodgings and all the rest asleep the Emperour took up the candle himself and went before Seldius to light him down stairs notwithstanding all the resistance he could make and when he was come to the stairs foot he said thus unto him Seldius remember this of Charles the Emperour when he shall be dead and gone that him whom thou hast known in thy time environed with so many mighty Armies and Guards of Souldiers thou hast also seen alone abandoned and forsaken yea even of his own domestical Servants c. I acknowledge this change of Fortune to proceed from the mighty hand of God which I will by no means go about to withstand 5. Darius entituled himself King of Kings and Kinsman to the Gods having knowledge of Alexanders landing on Asia side so much scorned him and his Macedonians that he gave order to his Lieutenants of the lesser Asia that they should take Alexander alive whip him with rods and then convey him to his presence that they should sink his Ships and send the Macedonians taken Prisoners beyond the Red Sea In this sort spake the glorious King in a vain confidence of the multitudes over whom he commanded But observe here a wonderful revolution his vast Armies were successively routed by the Macedonians his riches that were even beyond estimation seised his Mother Wife and Daughters made Prisoners and himself by the Treachery of Bessus his Vassal taken from the ground where he lay bewailing his misfortune and bound in a Cart covered with Hides of Beasts and to add derision to his adversity he was thereunto fastned with a Chain of Gold and thus drawn on amongst the ordinary Carriages But the Traitor Bessus being hastily pursued by Alexander he brought a Horse to the Cart where Darius lay bound perswading him to mount thereon But the unfortunate King refusing to follow those that had betrayed him they cast Darts at him wounded him to death wounded the Beasts that drew him slew his two Servants that attended him which done they all fled Polystratus a Macedonian being by pursuit prest with thirst while he was refreshing himself with water espyed a Cart with wounded beasts breathing for life and not able to move he searched the same and there found the miserable Darius bathing in his own blood impatient death pressing out his few remaining spirits he desired water with which Polystratus presented him after which he lived but to tell him that of all the best things which the World had which were lately in his power he had nothing remaining but his last breath wherewith to desire the Gods to reward his compassion 6. Charles the Eighth King of France had conquered Naples and caused himself to be crowned King thereof but the 8. of April 1498. upon Palm-Sunday even the King being in this Glory as touching this World departed out of the Chamber of Queen Anne Dutchess of Britain his Wife leading her with him to see the Tennis-Players in the Trenches of the Castle whither he had never led her before and they two entred into a Gallery called Haquelebacks Gallery It was the filthiest uncleanne●t place in or about the Castle for every man made water there and the entry into it was broken down moreover the King as he entred knocked his brow against the door though he was of very small stature Afterward he beheld the Tennis-playing a great while talking very familiarly with all men The last words he spake being in health were that he hoped never a●ter to commit deadly sin nor venial if he could in the uttering of which words he fell backwards and lost his speech about two of the clock in the afternoon and abode in this Gallery till eleven of the clock at night Every man that listed entred into the Gallery where he lay upon an old Mattress of straw from which he never arose till he gave up the ghost which was nine hours from his first lying upon it Thus departed out of this World saith mine Author this mighty puissant Prince in this miserable place not being able to recover one poor Chamber to dye in notwithstanding he had so many goodly houses of his own and had built one so very sumptuous immediately before 7. In a bloody Fight betwixt Amurath third King of the Turks and Lazarus Despot of Servia many thousands fell on both sides but in conclusion the Turks had the honour of the day and the Despot was slain Amurath after that great Victory with some few others of his chiefest Captains went to take a view of the dead bodies which without number lay on heaps in the field piled one upon another as little mountains While this happy Victor was beholding with delight this bloody Trophy of his Souldiers valour a Christian Souldier sore wounded and all gore blood seeing him in a staggering manner arose as if it had been from death out of an heap of the slain and making towards him for want of strength fell down many times by the way as he came as if he had been a drunken man At length drawing near to him when they that guarded the Kings person would have staid him he was by Amurath himself commanded to come nearer supposing that he would have craved his life of him but this resolute half-dead Christian pressing nearer to him as he would for honors sake have kissed his feet suddenly stab'd him in the bottom of his belly with a short Dagger which he had under his Coat of which wound that great King and Conquerour suddenly dyed when the Victory was his in the place where he had newly gained it while his heart swelled with glory when a thousand Swords and Lances and Darts had missed him when he might now seem secure as to death then fell he as a great Sacrifice to the Ghosts of those thousands he had in that Battel sent to their graves The Souldier by whose hand this glorious action was performed was called Miles Cobelitz and the Battel it self was fought Anno 8. Alexander the Son of Perseus King of Mac●don being carried away Captive together with his Father to the City of Rome was reduced to that

poverty and miserable want that Prince as he was he was forced to learn the Art of a Turner and Joiner whereby he got his living 9. My Father hath told me from the mouth of Sir Robert Cotton how that worthy Knight met in a morning a true and undoubted Plantagenet holding the Plough in the Country Thus gentile blood fetcheth a circuit in the body of a Nation running from Yeomanry through Gentry to Nobility and so retrograde returning through Gentry to Yeomanry again 10. ● Philip King of Macedon after many famous Exploits by him performed and being chosen by all Greece as their General in the Asian Expedition an honour he had long thirsted after con●ulted the Oracle of Apollo and from thence received as he did interpret it a very favourable Answer touching his success against the Persian He therefore ordains great and solemn Sacrifices to the Gods marries his Daughter Cleopatra to Alexander King of Epirus and that he might appear amongst the Greeks in his greatest glory and magnificence he invites throughout all Greece divers great persons to this nuptial Feast and desires them to bring with them as many as they pleased whom he would also entertain as his Guests There was therefore a marvellous confluence of people from all parts to these Royal Nuptials and the musical contests which he had also ordained At Aegis a City in Macedonia was this great Solemnity where he then received divers Crowns of Gold from several illustrious persons as also others that were sent to him in his honour from the most famous Cities in Greece even from Athens it self Now was the Feast over and the musical concertation deferred to the next day a multitude of people were assembled in the Theatre while it was yet night and at the first appearance of day then began the Pomp to set forth in which besides other glorious preparations there were twelve Statues of the Gods carried upon huge and triumphant Arches and together with these a thirteenth which was the Statue of Philip himself adorned with divine Habit by which he would it should be understood that he was in Dignity equal with the Gods themselves The Theatre being now crowded Philip himself appears all clothed in white having ordered his Guards to keep at a distance from him that the Greeks might know he thought himself sufficiently guarded with their love At this his glorious appearance he was openly extolled and looked upon as the happiest person amongst all other mortals But this his dazelling brightness was soon over-cast with a black cloud and all the Pageant of his Glory wrapt up in the ●ables of death For while his Guards kept at their commanded distance there ran up to him one Pausanias one of those that had the nearest charge of his body and with a short Gallick Sword he had hid about him for that purpose ●mote him into the side and laid him dead at his foot in the sight of thousands of his Souldiers and Friends 11. Polycrates the Tyrant of Samos was so fortunate that not so much as a light touch of adversity had for a long time befallen him he was allied with Amasis King of Egypt who hearing of the great prosperity of his friend feared like a wi●e Prince that it would not continue long wherefore he wrote unto him to this effect I am glad to understand that my friend fareth so well nevertheless I have this great felicity in suspicion knowing how envious Fortune is For my part I had rather that my affairs and the affairs of my friends went in ●uch sort as that some adversity might cross them in this life than that they should go always to our liking If herein thou wilt believe me carry thy self in thy prosperity as followeth Look what thou hast about thee that thou holdest most dear and wouldst be most sorry to lose cast that away so far and in such sort as none may ever see it If thy prosperity change not for all that apply thereunto from time to time for thy eas● some such remedy as this is which I have propounded to thee Polycrates liked this counsel and having a gold Ring set with an Emerauld engraven which he used for his Seal he cast it into the Sea but within a while after this Ring was found in a fishes belly and brought again to Polycrates Of which when Amasis heard he renounced by an express message the right of friendship and hospitality which he had contracted with Polycrates alledging for his reason that he feared he should be forced to sorrow and lamentation because of his friend overwhelmed with misery It happened that after certain days Oraetes Lieutenant of Cyrus in the City of Sardis drew unto him by crafty means this Minion of Fortune Polycrates whom he caused to be hanged upon a Gibbet and his body there left to the heats of the day and the dews of the night 12. Henry Holland Duke of Exeter and Earl of Huntingdon who married the Sister of Edward the Fourth was driven to such want that passing into Flanders Philip de Comines saith that he saw him run on foot bare-leg'd after the Duke of Burgundy's Train begging his bread for Gods sake whom the Duke of Burgundy at that time not knowing though they had married two Sisters but hearing afterwards who it was allotted him a small pension to maintain him till not long after he was found dead upon the shore of Dover and stripped all naked but how he came to his death could never by any inquiry be brought to light This was about the thirteenth year of the Reign of Edward the Fourth 13. In the Reign of King Iames the Lord Cobham was condemned for high Treason but yet reprieved by the King though notwithstanding he came to a miserable end For before his death he was extremely lousie for want of apparel and linen and had perished for hunger had not a Trencher-scraper at Court sometimes his Servant relieved him with such scraps as he could spare In this mans house he dyed being so poor a place that he was forced to creep up a Ladder through a little hole into his Chamber which was a strange change he having been a man of 7000 l. per annum and of a personal Estate of 30000 l. his Lady also being rich who yet in this his extremity of misery would not give him of the crums that fell from her table 14. Hugolin Giradesca of Pisa was the Chief of the Faction of the Guelphs that stuck to the Pope having foiled a part of the Gibbellines who affected the Emperour and stricken a fear into the rest became so great amongst those of his party that he commanded with a white Wand was both in name and in deed Lord of his City a rich and noble Personage learned magnificent married to a great Lady had goodly Children and Grandchildren abounding in all manner of wealth more than he could wish living happy in all pleasure both